Calcium oxide (CaO), more commonly known as lime or quicklime, has been studied by scholars as far back as the pre-Christian era. In his book Historia Naturalis, for example, Pliny the Elder discussed the preparation, properties, and uses of lime....

Lime is a general term for various naturally occurring minerals and materials derived from them, in which carbonates, oxides and hydroxides of calcium predominate. These materials are used in large quantities as building and engineering materials...

Lime production is the largest chemical use for limestone and dolomite. The term "lime" refers to high-calcium and dolomitic quicklime, their hydroxide forms and dead-burned dolomite. This review restricts itself to a discussion of the U.S. lime industry. Production and consumption In...

US LIME & Minerals Inc. had net income of $776,000 during the third quarter, a decline from net income of$1.3 million in the third quarter of 1997. Revenues decreased from $7.7 million in last year's third quarter to $7.4 million in the third...

Forensics experts said Monday that flesh found on a plate, fork and frying pan in the apartment of an aspiring horror novelist was human, and that DNA tests were planned to confirm whether it came from the body of his girlfriend.Dr. Rodolfo Rojo, chief medical...

A federal judge on Monday threw out an antitrust lawsuit that the operator of the LimeWire online file-sharing service filed against a coalition of major record labels.U.S. District Judge Gerard E. Lynch in New York ruled that Lime Group LLC failed to make its case...